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Update - First IUI scheduled!!!!
So after spending hours yesterday panicking, freaking out, calling around, researching, and swatting away the OBGYN's insistence that I get the tank out of their office and safely away to a cryo-freezing facility, I finally talked to my doctor. He wants to trigger me tomorrow with Ovidrel and do the IUI first thing Thursday morning. I admit, I'm a little skeptical... I did an ultrasound yesterday and my largest follicle was only 9 mm (on the left side) and the technician says they'll grow between 1-3 mm per day... so the smallest it will be is 12 mm, largest would be 18 mm by the time I do my IUI... I don't know how intense Ovidrel is so I don't know how much of a boost it'll give my follies.
In any case, I am relieved that I can at least try this month. I literally made myself sick with worry yesterday (shipping it back would've ultimately cost us $350 and taking it to Indianapolis would have put a lot of stress on us AND cost us $150, and taking it to a new doctor would have delayed my first IUI). Whether it works or not is debatable, but then at least I won't be crestfallen if I don't get a BFP. I will just have learned a lesson and try again with an RE from the Indy area. At least they'll be able to take our vials and then we won't have to worry about the swimmers expiring...
In any case, please send fertile thoughts our way 
Looking forward to reading TTT later on when the day is over!
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Re: Update - First IUI scheduled!!!!
9 IUIs = 9 BFNs
IVF October 2012: 22 eggs retrieved, 17 fertilized, 5 frozen
ET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Blighted ovum discovered at 7w5d; D&E
FET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Missed m/c discovered at 9w5d; D&E
Karyotyping: normal ~ RPL Testing: normal ~ Hysteroscopy: normal
FET #2: 1 blast transferred 10/25; BFP 10/31!
EDD 7/13/14 ~ Induced at 37w4d due to pre-eclampsia ~ Born on 6/28/14
*Everyone welcome*
Me - 30, My wife - 31 , Together for 10 yrs - Married August 2012
5 medicated IUIs w/ RE (March - July 2013) = BFN
Fresh IVF Cycle in September 2013 resulted in 18 mature eggs, 16 fertilized, 12 made it to day 5. Transfer of 2 Grade A blastocysts on 9/15/13, and 10 embryos in the freezer! *****BFP on 9/25/13 - betas: @10dp5dt = 232; @12dp5dt = 465; @15dp5dt = 1,581 *********William George born June 4, 2014*********Thanks very much, folks. I'm downloading Circle + Bloom for IUI/IVF right now in the hopes that it keeps me calm. I've gone and gotten myself a cold - between stress at work and stress from an expiring sperm tank my immune system is shot. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I just bit my tongue from violently sneezing. Wonderful. Cough syrup makes CM nice and sperm-friendly, right??? LOL Oh my... I think the meds are getting to me.
Me (43) and J (45) - same sex couple. And we don't feel 40+!
June'12 - First RE Visit
Sept. '12 - Tubes removed
Dec. '12 - Donor Egg/Donor Sperm IVF Cycle - 4 good embies!
Dec. '12 - Fresh transfer, BFP! EDD 8/29/13
Mar. '13 - Missed m/c at 16w1d, baby boy stopped growing at 15w4d
Loss due to umbilical cord clot...baby was perfect.
Jul '13 - FET#1 - c/p
Sept. '13 - FET#2 - BFN
Dec.' 2, 2013 - FET#3 with our last chance embie - BFP!!!
Dec' 26, 2013 - hb!!
EDD 8/20/14 with a baby girl!
Little S was born on 8/21/14 - 8lb, 14 oz and 20 inches long.
We live in Seattle and used SRM for our donor egg IVF cycle
Thank you again
If this cycle works it will be a bloody miracle considering all the obstacles we've faced... Just got my Ovidrel today. My sperm tank expires today - that's totally awesome because my IUI is tomorrow. Factors impeding this cycle: a nasty cold, rampant stress, extraordinarily poor communication from my OBGYN's office, and an expiring sperm tank.
I'm holding out hope that the expiration date of the storage tank is a loose guideline rather than a firm deadline for viability. I've heard liquid nitrogen can maintain its freezing level provided the tank isn't opened or tampered with, which it hasn't been.
This will be one tenacious kid if conception miraculously happens this cycle.
Married in September 2010, started TTC journey November 2012
Me-
7 IUI- 2 CP- 2 BFN
RPL blood work 12/27, showed a balance translocation in chromosome 11;22
Spouse-
PCOS 4 IUI-4 BFN
New Plan: Reciprocal IVF, me as carrier wife's eggs. Just went through insurance and received partial approval, so my part will go through my IVF benefits and wife's part will be out of pocket. Now just finalizing finance plans to cover the oop costs. Doctors office is in process of moving to a new building so there are no IVF start ups until March/April 2015.
Baby Hayden Frances born 12/20/14 at 11:11 a.m... Our perfect little miracle. Here's how we got here:
My lovely wife:
5 IUI's January 2013-June 2013- 3 Cycles with Clomid- BFN
Myself: Genderqueer guy who hopped in the driver's seat of the baby making train
IUI #6- 7/23- Monitored and Trigger on Day 12, with one 16mm follicle and one 18mm follicle- BFN
IUI #7- 8/21- Not monitored, 50mg Clomid- BFN
September and October: Missed Cycles due to vacation and a Half Marathon
IUI #8- Monitored and triggered on day 15, with one 23x18mm follicle- BFN on 11/19/2013
December: Moved onto to see an RE to make a good plan.
IUI #9- 1/1/2014 Natural Cycle, BFP on 1/15/2014, 6W Ultra-Sound Reveals nothing in Gestation Sack... Natural M/C at 7W, 2/3/2014
IUI #10 3/21/2014- Natural Cycle- BFP on 4/1/2014 (please don't be an April Fools. Beta #1 13dpiui- 48, Beta #2 16dpiui- 416, Beta #3 1018...
1st Ultrasound- 4/22/2014- 6w4d HB- 134!
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